Two Seconds Under the World: Terror Comes to America-The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing

by Jim Dwyer, Deidre Murphy, Peg Tyre

An in-depth account of the bombing of the World Trade Center provides a close-up look at the Islamic fundamentalist conspiracy behind the terrorist attack and a revealing expose+a7 of the bungling of America's security agencies in preventing the attack. 50,000 first printing.

322 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Jim Dwyer was an American journalist and author. He was a reporter and columnist with The New York Times, and the author or co-author of six non-fiction books. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times. He appeared in the 2012 documentary film Central Park Five and was portrayed on stage in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy (2013). Dwyer had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his "compelling and compassionate columns about New York City" and was also a member of the New York Newsday team that won the 1992 Pulitzer for spot news reporting for coverage of a subway derailment in Manhattan.

Reviews

[Michael Gerald · Rating 3 out of 5]

This chronicle of the first terror attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 is a nice read, though I have a hunch that some of its findings have already been superseded by the second, deadlier attack on September 11, 2001. Also, it is now known that Al-Qaeda was responsible for even this earlier atrocity, a fact that was still amorphous at the time of writing of the book. And now, Al-Qaeda is just a shadow of its former self due to the death of its founder Bin Laden, the decimation of its network, and the rise of another, more violent and ambitious group: Daesh. But Daesh now shows signs that it has (hopefully) peaked. No matter how long it takes, this new evil will fail.